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Full Episode for Friday February 5 2021
Country Life is out with musterers on horseback at Molesworth Station, New Zealand's largest farm and demand is soaring for milk from a small Raglan farm.
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Mustering at Molesworth
For the musterers at Molesworth Station, it's an early start to beat the heat. Josh, Duncan, Connell and Liam are moving the cattle during the mating season. Country Life spends a day with the…
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Calling all Young Farmers
The FMG Young Farmer of the Year competition is back says New Zealand Young Farmers CEO Lynda Coppersmith. The 2020 season was cancelled for the first time in the contest's 52 year history due to…
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The Dream Team: Jess, David and Bronwyn Hill
A Raglan dairy farming family set up a wee milk bottling plant three years ago. They produced 30 litres of drinking milk a week and delivered it to local customers. Now they bottle and deliver 5000…
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Country Life for 29 January 2021
Wine sales lift after people staying at home in the US and UK reach for a bottle from Marlborough, one look at a log and wood worker Greg Taylor knows what he should make from it, wool-less sheep are…
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Shedding sheep hot under hammer
Bidding was competitive at the Mt Cass Station Wiltshire Sheep Sale in North Canterbury. Nearly 3500 sheep reached higher than expected prices at Andrew and Sara Heard's farm and were sold to bidders…
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Checking Cherries
Fionnuala Reynolds has spent the summer checking the quality of cherries coming off trees in Alexandra.
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Summer Series - Wood Work
Greg Taylor is the son of a bushman and first started working in forests in the 1960s. For more than 40 years he's lived near Colville in the northern Coromandel where he grows trees, fells and mills…
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Pandemic has silver lining for Marlborough wine
People hunkering down in pandemic-hit US and UK - major markets for Marlborough wine - has meant a lift in sales of wine from New Zealand's largest wine growing region.
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Country Life for 11 December 2020
Country Life visits Tokomaru Bay where locals have banded together to save their historic wharf. Cosmo pops in to Luisetti Seeds in Rangiora which is still going strong after Vincent Luisetti started…
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Buoying the spirit of Tokomaru Bay
Work has finally started to restore an old wharf at Tokomaru Bay on the East Cape. A committed band of locals has been working for years to raise money for the rebuild which they hope will…
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Ag Envoy says NZ farmers are up to challenges 2021 might bring.
In January Tararua farmer Mel Poulton took over as New Zealand's special agricultural trade envoy. She'd typically be advocating for New Zealand's farmers and products overseas - but she's had to do…
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Sowing the seeds of Success
Rangiora's Luisetti Seeds' warehouses, seed clearing facilities and silos are a constant reminder to locals of the town's long agricultural history. The family business was established by Vincent…
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Post-lockdown sales hold for vege grower
When Country Life visited North Canterbury vegetable grower Cam Booker two years ago he was getting into selling vege boxes. This year sales sky-rocketed over the Covid-19 lockdown and he says local…
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Full Episode for Friday December 4 2020
Country Life chats with North Otago students who are burying cotton undies for six weeks to see how much they degrade and we're in Gisborne measuring forests and making salads...
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Figuring out Forests
4 Dec 2020Kees Weytmans audits forests so that buyers and forestry companies can be sure of the volume and quality of trees coming off the hills.
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Shoring up salad supply
At the height of the season Gisborne's Leaderbrand can churn out 90,000 packets of salad a day
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The Soil Your Undies Challenge
Soiling your undies isn't normally encouraged, unless it's for the good of science! Students from six North Otago schools are undertaking a number of activities to assess soil health in their schools…
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Regen Agriculture a Rehash?
Regenerative agriculture is becoming a popular catch phrase in New Zealand. Soil scientist Doug Edmeades says it's an overseas designed concept suitable for dust bowls in North America and Australia…
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A swing to sheep milk
Seven farms in Waikato converted to milking sheep this spring. Many didn't get to start the conversion until the cow dairy season ended on June 1st. It was all go because lambs were arriving only a…
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Dairying family reaps rewards from robots
A Manawatū dairy farming family is enjoying spending more time together after they installed robots in their dairy shed.
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Full Episode for Friday November 27 2020
Country Life finds out how robotics are helping a dairy farm in Manawatu and meets some farmers who switched from milking cows to milking sheep this spring. Plus with all the talk around regenerative…
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The Dog and Ram Run
Country Life heads out with a vet to give farms dogs their annual once-over and gets up close and personal with rams to see if they're in good shape for mating.
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Farm to Bush
Tim and Sue Anderson are building a six kilometre long fence to keep pests out of regenerating bush which is going to be protected under the QEII National Trust and North Canterbury regional rep Miles…
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